[NFBCS] Sonification of graphs

[beth.chocolategeek at gmail.com]

Hi Tracy and all,

 

I've been looking into using sonification for data for some projects at
work. I found several Nasa projects using audio sonification, one by a blind
Radio astronomer  who is blind who studies solar winds, and another on
exoplanets.

 

Second, Georgia Tech has a Sonification Lab which does all kinds of
sonification and audio research for graphs, games, and a bunch of other
stuff. If you search on Georgia Tech Sonification Lab, it should come up for
you. They have a free program called Sonification Sandbox. It's a Java
program that is accessible though I should note I've only done a small bit
of testing of it. You can either put in an X and Y axes numbers, or import
an Excel CSV file with your graphical information. There's documentation on
how to do this.

 

I'm not a programmer, but there's probably a way to sonify data just as we
would for data visualization techniques.

 

Lastly, I believe there's a sonification add-on for NVDA in the NVDA add-ons
manager called Audio Charts. I installed it but I haven't tried it yet.

 

Respectfully,

 

Beth

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Hi Tracey.

A programmer I am not and to be honest I have no current use for the
technology of which you are speaking, however; given the way that nvda uses
beeps to sonify the progress bars on screen as you install software and the
like, I wonder if that technology nvda employs or that particular method of
technical leverage can be used to sonify the graphs as you suggest below?

Just a thought!

 

 

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I heard a piece on Marketplace on NPR last night that played a graph
sonification.  Where a print graph line would go up and down, the sound went
up and down a piano keyboard.  It was so great.  I understood immediately
what it was showing, even without the presenter's detailed explanation.

I sure wish there were more sonified graphs out there, or there was a bit of
software I could run that would grab a print graph and sonify it.  I expect
it wouldn't work for all graphs, but even some would be helpful.

Tracy

 

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